And we did not find this pitting in the southern Africa species Australopithecus africanus, despite a large sample of more than 500 teeth. However, it does appear in the earliest Omo ...

ark:/65665/3ad017d8f-fb81-48e9-9ae1-c8dd93d835dc Original Object Holding Institution University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) Location of Discovery Sterkfontein, Republic of South Africa Site ...

New isotope analysis of Australopithecus tooth enamel uncovers a plant-based diet, challenging long-held views on meat’s role ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...

If you were to divide the 4.5-billion-year history into a 1,000-page book, our distant ancestors, Australopithecus [think: Lucy], appear on the last page.

They were part of a food- chain and had no shortage of predators. So, Australopithecus did what is natural: they relied on their instinct – their animal ability to notice signs of potential danger.

News Published: 02 September 1939 Dentition of Australopithecus (Plesianthropus) Nature 144, 451–452 (1939) Cite this article ...

It was the world’s most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found and estimated to be nearly four-million years old. The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World ...

Holloway’s death occurred almost exactly a hundred years after Raymond Dart’s announcement in the February, 7th, 1925 issue of Nature, of the discovery at Taungs (now Taung) in southern Africa of the ...

They were part of a food chain, and had no shortage of predators. So Australopithecus did what is natural: they relied on their instinct – their animal ability to notice signs of potential danger.